America: Painting a Nation

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"America: Painting a Nation" is the most expansive survey of American painting ever presented in Australia. With over 80 works, ranging from 1750 to 1966, this exhibition will cover more than 200 years of American art, history and experience. The exhibition in on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW, Australia, November 8, 2013–February 9, 2014.

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Blind Man's Buff

John Lewis Krimmel

Date: 1814

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1999.82

Text Entries: Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. 3 Vol. New York: George P. Scott & Company, 1834. Vol. 2: text pp. 392–93. Jackson, Joseph. "Krimmel, 'The American Hogarth.'" International Studio (June 1929): 33–37, 86. Text p. 37. Naeve, Milo. "John Lewis Krimmel: His Life, His Art and His Critics." Master's thesis. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware, 1955. The Magazine Antiques 124 (November 1983): 875. Ill. (color). Christie's, New York, New York (Sale 5472, December 9, 1983): lot 5. Text p. 14; ill. lot 5, p. 15 (color). Sokol, David M. "The Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois." The Magazine Antiques 126:5 (November 1984): 1156–69. Pl. II, p. 1156 (color). Naeve, Milo. John Lewis Krimmel: An Artist in Federal America. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1987. Ill. no. 5, p. 75 (black & white). Atkinson, D. Scott et al. A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Text p. 118; pl. T-9, p. 118 (color). Brazeau, Linda. Art of an Emergent Nation: American Painting 1775–1865. (exh. cat., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988. Text p. 15; ill. p. 24 (black & white as Blind Man's Bluff). Blind Man's Buff, John Lewis Krimmel. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, October 1988. Ill. (black and white). Harding, Anneliese. John Lewis Krimmel: Genre Artist of the Early Republic. Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1994. Text pp. 67, 70; ill. p. 68 (color). Cartwright, Derrick R. The Extraordinary and the Everyday: American Perspectives, 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2001. Text p. 23 (checklist); ill. p. 25 (color). Cartwright, Derrick R. L'Héroïque et le quotidian: les artistes américains, 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2001. Text p. 23 (checklist); ill. p. 25 (color). Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA III: Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, Illinois: American Medical Association, 2011. Text p. 62; ill. opposite p. 62 (color). Art Across America. (exh. cat., National Museum of Korea, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Seoul, South Korea: National Museum of Korea, 2013. (English and Korean versions). Text pp. 35, 143; ill. fig. 18, p. 36 (color), p. 142 (color). America: Painting a Nation. (exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Museum of Korea, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013. Text p. 78; ill. cat. no. 13, p. 79 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text p. 27; ill. p. 27 (color).